A Casual Stroll to Mordor

Orion has posted his third blog covering more of the Warden changes coming with Update 6. And while there is a lot to read over, many of these changes seem to be for the better.

In his second post on Wardens, Orion discusses some of the Legendary Skills as well as the Shield and Spear lines.

This week we talk about the new expansion Riders of Rohan coming Fall 2012 and the news of what is coming with Update 6.

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We take a look at the first in a series of blog posts by Orion concerning their upcoming changes in Update 6.

Orion has been busy over the holiday with some changes to the Warden Class that are coming in the future. And although some people might tense up at the thought of Orion touching another class, he assures us that his intention is to enhance the Warden, not to wreck it.

Orion is active in the forums and that usually means sneak peaks of changes he’s working on with classes

Orion made a post today on his blog speaking to the upcoming changes to the Wardens in Update 5.

This week we discuss the new screenshots, hunter dev diary, changes coming to the LOTRO Store and more!

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In what can almost be described as a novella, Orion has released the latest Developer Diary regarding Minstrels in the upcoming expansion, Rise of Isengard. The changes are, at the very least, extensive and intricate.

Allan “Orion” Maki released today the Developer Diary for Champions for the Rise of Isengard expansion (and boy is it a long one at that).

Orion is continuing his proposed changes for the Minstrel class and today has a nice summary post of what he suspects will be on the test servers for us to try out first.

In another “Monday 2fer”, Orion has posted changes to the Lore-master and Captain classes. These classes will be headed up by Raskolnikov, but as stated in an earlier blog post, Orion will be “The Mouth of Raskolnikov”.

A second blog post covering proposed minstrel changes has been posted by Orion late last night. This post focuses on trait sets, legacies and Anthems.

Orion has posted the proposed changes for the Minstrel class on his blog yesterday. These are proposed changes, as in there is nothing done to test servers or anything for us to try out.

It was only three days ago that Orion posted about some proposed Warden and Burglar updates that may be coming with Isengard and already there has been enough feedback to warrant some changes.

Orion posted another class blog yesterday discussing some proposed changes concerning the Burglar and the Warden class. It appears that Raskolnikov will be heading up the Burglar changes and that Orion will be heading up the Warden class.

In a further update to the proposed upcoming changes to Champions, Orion has laid out information about Traits and trait lines for the champions as well as their stances.

In the first of a series of blog posts about future class changes, Orion follows up on his earlier preview of the Champion revisions and offers a deeper look at the changes he had previously mentioned.

Orion weighed in today on the Champion Forums stating that Kelsens’ blogs that were posted yesterday are just the beginning…

Today, Allan “Orion” Maki released a Developer Diary concerning the (very popular) removal of Radiance that will be coming with Update 2, Echoes of the Dead and it is a very good read.

A Developer Diary by Allan “Orion” Maki was released today discussing the new Tasks that will be introduced into the game.

Today, Orion posted a much-anticipated (at least by me!) developer diary concerning his revisions of the rest of Volume 1 that will be released with Volume 3, Book 1. Using scenes from The Lord of the Rings such as “…Aragorn’s stand against the Nazgûl, Boromir’s stand against the Uruk-hai, Sam’s resolve both against Shelob and in Cirith Ungo” Orion wishes the players to have an “epic” journey and a story through LOTRO that they can experience.

In this episode of CStM we go over all the patch from last week, the hardware upgrade event currently running and other news. Our main topic this week is talking about things to do with the latest expansion/patch when you’re not level 60+ yet.

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